Iranian Wrestling Champion Executed in Case That Drew International Attention

Iranian state TV on Saturday reported that the country’s authorities executed a wrestler for allegedly murdering a man.

A group of protesters chant slogans at the main gate of the Old Grand Bazaar, in Tehran, Iran on June 25, 2018. Iranian Labor News Agency via AP

TEHRAN—Iranian state TV on Saturday reported that the country’s authorities executed a wrestler for allegedly murdering a man after President Donald Trump asked for the 27-year-old condemned man’s life to be spared.

State TV quoted the chief justice of Fars province, Kazem Mousavi, as saying: “The retaliation sentence against Navid Afkari, the killer of Hassan Torkaman, was carried out this morning in Adelabad prison in Shiraz.”